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Religion and literature

exegesis, hermeneutics, post-modern theories

Shira Wolosky

pp. 645-664

Literature and religion have often been neighboring rivals, each offering multiple dimensions of meaning to experience. Each also has been traditionally defined in terms of a governing unity. But post-metaphysical critique has challenged the overarching reference to unity in favor of a recognition and embrace of difference. Taking the history of American poetics, this chapter pursues the implications of the shift from traditional metaphysics of unity through post-metaphysical critiques towards redefining both aesthetic and religious meanings through difference and multiplicity.

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DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-54794-1_30

Full citation:

Wolosky, S. (2018)., Religion and literature: exegesis, hermeneutics, post-modern theories, in B. Stocker & M. Mack (eds.), The Palgrave handbook of philosophy and literature, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 645-664.

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